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Hello, thanks for the reply. I just booted into MX for the first time in two days, and the problem has gone away by itself! I installed MX 10 days ago to try it out on this computer, and the problem was there all along. Today it's gone. Maybe one of the updated packages from today is responsible, wh...

I am using KDE Plasma with the Application Dashboard. Every time I reboot, there are no favorites, no recent applications, and no recent files visible on the dashboard. I searched around and tried renaming the folder /home/theber/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd, but that did not help. On a different ...

Thanks for the link @l0dr3 . I think you are right.
Indeed all my computers are using distros running systemd. I might try adding a "remount" command to my fstab file, a suggestion that I found online. It will have to wait until next week though. I will report on my progress.

Thanks for the reply.
It dawned on me that the problem is not with mariadb or SysVinit, but with the bind mount procedure. I seem to remember reading somewhere that performing a bind mount using fstab requires systemd. Or something like that.
I have to do some more homework.

I did a new, fresh install of MX-23.1. At first I was able to start mariadb using the command sudo mysql I then ran sudo mysql_secure_installation so that I could start mariadb as a normal user, with a password. So far, so good. Next I set up my fstab file to bind mount my sql partition at boot. (I ...